It just hit me I am going to have three kids.
I was in the bathroom, totally hating myself for the spicy chicken sandwich I picked up from Wendys and practicing some none hideous pushing the baby out faces in the mirror with the door locked, and the boys were literally trying to break the door down.
First of all, who can get anything done with that kind of distraction?
Secondly, holy fuck, there will be three of them.
This whole situation is totally not as Von Trappy as I imagined. No singing in the trees wearing cutesy outfits made from curtains. No harmonizing and stormy evening pillow fights.
It’s kinda like Jerry Springer..with midgets. Midgets with tempers who throw things at you and backwash into your drink.
So, I wake up each morning hoping that if I just keep them clean, full and alive, I won’t get hit across the face with a chair.
It’s insane.
In fact, the only reason I even managed to put pants on today was so I could go hide in my car and eat the rest of a Frosty I hid in the freezer.
And yet, here I am, desperately trying to work this third baby down the ‘ole birth canal.
Because kids are like tacos, and I can’t seem to get fucking enough of them.
Mmm…guacamole.
Either way, pregnancy is a funny thing.
You do it like rabbits to even get knocked up in the first place. Then for the whole first 12 weeks, you puke your guts out. And even super horny guys won’t have sex with girls who smell like vomit and have chunks of corn in their hair.
But then, the second trimester comes, and boom, you’re a porn star. In fact, you’d hike your ass up on the washing machine during the spin cycle if you could successfully lift your own body weight. Which you can’t. So you settle for making a run to Chipotle and taking the bumpy road home.
And then, your hips start to widen, and you can’t see your feet anymore, and you pee when you walk, and the only way to put an end to all this misery is to stimulate labor. Except, you are a big fat cow who can’t see her feet anymore, and all you want to do is waddle to the fridge for more leftover cold hot wings from last night.
So, you weigh your options, and decide giving birth would totally make room for even more hot wings, so it seems, giving it up is the way to go. Plus, your poor husband is operating on a time crunch. He knows that as soon as that thing crowns, it’s like Punxsutawney Phil popping out and seeing his shadow, there ain’t going to be shit going down for at least six more weeks, so he has to make bank while he can.
So, I decided to make the best of the situation last night, and sent the boys to Oma’s.
First of all, holy pubey mcunderpants, let’s just kill to birds with one stone here and get in the mood with an intimate cleaning up of the girly parts. It needed to be done, and it’s not like I could see what the fuck was going on down there, so I thought, how hot would it be to have the hubs do it?
Holy labia.
It was literally like I had Scott MacIntyre down there hacking away with a rusty knife.
10 squirts of Bactine later.
Sexy time. Which is no longer resembles anything like the porn star days of old.
Nope. Now, having sex with me and my complete lack of control of my bodily functions is much like having sex with Al Bundy…except I am not drunk…which is a bummer, because it totally would have made the fact that I farted, yes farted, halfway through, much less fucking humiliating.
If I wasn’t operating on an agenda and was at all able to quickly roll off the bed without potentially farting again, I would have crawled into a hole and died immediately.
But I couldn’t.
So, instead we got dressed and went for tacos.
Mmmm…guacamole.














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and with that you join the ranks of my favorite blogs. that ruled. and was oh, so familiar. we’re totally stopping at two. good luck!
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I’m thinking adoption might be a nice route. I mean, I waddle now, so I don’t know what would happen if I put another human in there. Although, my roommate lost weight when she was pregnant, but that was because she puked the whole time.
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Solid gold. You should be getting paid for this.
The way to get past the three kids thing is to just teach this new one how to be a stool pigeon, and then later an enforcer. Just issue your affection and approval very judiciously, and you’ll be set for life!
Or at least until they’re adults and hate you.
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That person from Cleveland on your blog searching through your archives.
Me!
Geesh. Where have I been and why have I never been here to read through everything? Super funny… LOVE.
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Oh I am so there with you. And the guacamole.
Now add to that having a bad cold and not being able to breathe properly.
4 more weeks. Gah.
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You are a far braver woman than I to let the hubs anywhere NEAR the nether regions with anything thing that could cause a cut to my most favorite of areas.
Tacos…….sounds good to me.
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I could never understand why we bother getting pedicures before the ‘big day’….I say getting the landscaping taken care of is more important. You know, so when you watch the video of the birth years later at your kids’ wedding…you can say you were well coifed.
Holy McPubey!! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
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This is A LOT of taco talk, if you know what I mean! ; )
OH and p.s. I can relate… to the part about three kids – WHA???? And a bunch of other stuff too… thanks for making me laugh so hard that I’m pretty sure I peed myself. Not that I have to laugh to even do that these days.
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OH MY GOD you have me rolling again. You are too damn funny!
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Just discovered your blog, and as one mom of three to (soon to be) another, I’d have to say it sounds like you’re going to be a natural. Keep your sense of humor, of course! And good luck! I’ll be checking back …
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oh my gosh! when did you get all these fans? i hope i’m allowed to say that i knew you when. because this is just crazy!
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As a mom of three, lover of tacos, and an occasional embarrassment in the sack, I speak the truth when I say that I giggled more times through this than I’ve had sex since the baby. And the baby’s almost two. You’re *that* good.
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Holy fucking funny-ness. I am with you on the icky outie belly button, the smell of vomit and chinese food, the need to eat and hide, hide and eat. I even asked my husband to give the girlie a shave down there for the first two pregnancies. Once the third kid completed obstructed my view of the pu-tang I harnessed my inner flex-stunt self and somehow managed to graze the clippers in enough right areas so as to feel vaguely refreshed.
All goofs and details aside, your first line was the most telling:
“It just hit me I am going to have three kids.”
As a mom to three boys now for a year – who has a sister with three kids for now 7 months – let me just say that it is mind-bending, extending and rear-ending. Not to scare you off (no point now, right?) and I don’t think I will because this line, “So, I wake up each morning hoping that if I just keep them clean, full and alive, I won’t get hit across the face with a chair” is the PERFECT ATTITUDE TO TAKE EVERY DAY YOU LIVE WITH THREE LITTLE ONES.
Good luck and whatever you do, don’t try the castor oil. Been there. Not pretty. Pretty ugly.
After you squeeze that puppy out come check us out at Momalom.com cuz we’re talking about Loud, Messy Life with Three every day!
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I was having a rough morning and you just totally brightened my day! Thanks for being your crazy kooky self!
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Holy Moly…you are hysterical! I just found you via a tweet from TheMomJen and this is great — your writing…style…love it! With BOTH of my kids I ate like $30 worth of McDonald’s (go ahead TRY to spend that much there!) the night before my 38 week OB visit…Blood Pressure through the roof (from the food, I just know it)…they sent me over to the hospital to be induced on the spot…happened with both…and it it worked. Probably not one (or two in this case) of my healthier choices to bring on labor…but it worked. YOU are my new favorite read!
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Your Jerry Springer quote…LMAO! OMG, your too much, found you a while back and have to say your hilarious and real, we even have a couple of the same stories that you write about with such comical type that I could never think of, lol. Thanks for the laughter and the “tears”, lol. BTW, let me reassure you going from 2-3kiddos is WAY easier than going 1-2, and all the pink and frilly stuff with number 3 is kinda refreashing. Enjoy your 3 kiddos and basking in your mommy glow. Good luck!
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I keep checking in to see if you have managed to shake #3 loose yet. Good Lord woman, I can barely stand the suspense.
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I don’t think I can add anything to the discussion. Pretty damn funny and I knew there was a reason (or lots of them) why I was too chicken to ever get pregnant!
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omg! I’m with ohmommy, where have I been? Oh that’s right, living under a rock in Chile. I’ve heard about you having your baby on twitter…. so I’m here. So glad I stopped by. I can’t stop laughing. You are a frikkin’ riot. The American Idol guy?? Hilarious. Hope your labor goes well!
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Holy crap, you are hilarious! Yeah, the whole farting during sex thing. I think it happens to all of us. We just don’t talk about it. Much.
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